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Insomnia: that bothersome bedfellow that’s often seen in the questionable company of writers’ block. Even now, in an attempt to type these words, the two are loudly conspicuous in the middle of the dive bar fast-dancing to a slow song on the jukebox.

Congratulations to the Pensacola Ice Flyers for their President’s Cup win over Huntsville! You guys worked very hard all season for your new coach, Gary Graham, and finally brought a sports championship to our city.

Today marks 156 News Journal articles for The Beer Garden. 3 years of devoted, meritorious service. Call me a sentimental fool, but I’m rather proud of the body of work writing this column has created.

It seems as if there are – in proportion to the rest of the country – a large number of breweries in New England paying respect to the beer history of Britain. As American craft brewing advances and grows in a Fibonacci Sequence of new brewery openings, we’re actually